Lakewood Elementary School's Site Based Council meeting agendas, minutes, by-laws and policies

Curriculum Policy

Curriculum
Policy

LAKEWOOD
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Curriculum
guidelines

Our curriculum will:

Be aligned vertically and horizontally with Kentucky
Core Academic standards for all subjects — English/Language Arts
(including Writing); Math; Science; Social Studies; Practical Living and
Career Studies; and Arts and Humanities, and designed to help all students
master that content.

Be revised, if needed, based on school needs assessment
through the program review process, improvement planning process,
professional learning communities, or analysis of student results.

Provide equitable access to a common academic core for
all students.

Provide links to continuing education, life, and career
options.

Reflect the strategies adopted in our School
Improvement Plan.

Teacher Role

All teachers will:

Disseminate
the curriculum expectations for their classes to students in an
age-appropriate way and to all parents.

Teach
the state standards assigned for
their particular area or areas.

Be
prepared to contribute to discussions of needed changes in the curriculum.

Principal Role

The principal will:

Ensure
that copies of the curriculum standards and expectations for the school
are available for parent review.

Meet
with each new teacher to review this policy and the sections of the
curriculum that apply to that teacher’s assignment.

At
staff meetings in January and May, hold discussions with the staff on
possible curriculum revisions and report to the Curriculum Committee on
the results of those discussions.

Curriculum
Revision

The Curriculum Committee will be
responsible for making any needed recommendations to the council on curriculum
revisions when one or more of the following events occur:

District
leaders or working groups modify district curriculum documents.

Our
School Improvement Planning process identifies a need for adjustments.

Other
schools in our district identify a need for changes in their curriculum or
in ours that could alter our vertical articulation, create curriculum
gaps, or allow unintended overlaps and redundancy.

During
staff discussions, one or more teachers at our school identify a weakness
or opportunity for improvement that needs to be addressed to ensure
success for all students.

Other
stakeholder input or data demonstrate a need to do so.

POLICY EVALUATION

We will evaluate the effectiveness of this policy through
our School Improvement Planning Process.